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Isaiah 37:36-38
New Catholic Bible
Isaiah 37:36-38
New Catholic Bible
36 Then the angel of the Lord went forth and struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When morning dawned, the ground was covered with corpses.[a] 37 Then King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and returned home to Nineveh.
38 One day, as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer slew him with the sword and then fled to the land of Ararat. His son Esarhaddon succeeded him.
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- Isaiah 37:36 In the effort to emphasize the breadth of God’s triumph, the writer is not afraid to exaggerate numbers.